UFO Engineering

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a founder of a startup - a platform for psychologists and their patients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering, and what were your goals?

My platform helps psychologists and their patients to streamline the whole process, to match appropriate specialists to appropriate patients, manage payment process and provides necessary communication tools for psychology sessions. UFO Engineering team helped me to build this

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

I was looking for a local and reliable team with adequate pricing, we found UFO Engineering office, which was pretty convenient for me.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Laravel, Vue, Mysql, Nginx, WebTRC, Video conferencing technologies were used for the project.

Steps were:

• define the technologies, define the process of psychologists and patient matching, interaction and appointing times. Provide estimation for the project
• Build the architecture for the project
• Implement admin panel based on purchased theme
• Implement the design which we provided for the landing page
• Develop process of psychologists and patient matching, interaction and time appointments.
• Develop video call functionality for psychology sessions

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Team consisted of 6 people:

• Account manager
• project manager
• CTO
• front end developer
• 2 back end developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We’ve just started, UFO Engineering helped me to build this project, all according to expected results. Now we may be able to help more people and more effectively, right now this is very important especially due to recent events which are happening in Ukraine.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

All the management we’re done on the end of UFO Engineering team, I only communicated with account manager, project manager and CTO, we had 3 meeting in private, rest of communication was in Google Meet and telegram.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were very communicative, I had a feeling that they put themselves in my position to propose a great solution. Plus, the final result was according to my expectations that they help to from.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

The team was great, I am fully satisfied with the result. If I had to suggest something, maybe I wished that the app was released faster but I understand that some technical, tasks need time to be developed and tested properly, but I would not call that a disadvantage, more important is that the team is suppose to be on expected schedule.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We have a startup - web-platform for online workout - https://abc-workout.online. I am a co-founder.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering, and what were your goals?

We hired UFO Engineering to help us to launch our project abc-workout.online. When we were working with the previous developer, we were left with non-working core features and with 50 percent ready front end part. The previous developers did not even provide the project files they were working with. So we needed to finalize the platform and launch it.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We came across UFO Engineering website, got in contact with Yaroslav and described him the situation that we had at that moment. During our conversation we made a conclusion that we can trust this team to help us out and we are totally satisfied with our choice. 

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

JavaScript, jQuerry, GULP, Laravel, MySQL technologies were used. There were following project steps.

• Extract all the files from dev version of website and set up new environment.
• Finalize the development of CRUD features, user registration, managing of passwords etc.
• Develop non existing pages.
• Improve training calendar.
• Improve training algorithm.
• Add training events and system notifications.
• Development of admin panel.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Yaroslav allocated one front end developer and one back end developer to our project and managed their tasks himself. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

After a partnership with UFO we have a working application that we plan to improve in the future. We were not able to start this business for quite some time until we met Yaroslav and his team.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Yaroslav has done most of the management, with the help of the tasks tracker, I was not involved very much, but was satisfied.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The UFO team was very helpful and reliable. They acted like they were a part of our company - thinking about our product with empathy and care. It was very meaningful for us.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

UFO Engineering team was amazing, especially after our previous experience and the price was very adequate. I guess the only thing to improve is to get even better at coding with all the latest and future technologies and be even more effective in management but I did not see any issues with either of those

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company develops web applications and SaaS for SME companies. I am the CEO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering, and what were your goals?

• To code the entire online quoting application
• In the app, the company can receive a new price request from the website using an intuitive Bot system
•  To enable companies to respond to price requests fast and engage their clients to the quoting process.

SOLUTION

How did you select UFO Engineering and what were the deciding factors?

We have cooperated earlier in the other similar app projects. Factors were:

• a responsible team that was always there to communicate with me
• pretty good quality of work 

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

In the first phase, we did some requirement elicitation work with them. After that, they did mockups for the service. After accepting those design mockups they started to develop. After a few weeks, we received the first version of the app for testing. After that, we have added needed features and constantly tested the result.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Only one participated in the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The application was created from the scratch and involved all the required features. The team was always available and did as best as they could as usual with all the modern technologies and development principles.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

They were professionals! We used Skype chats on a weekly basis. We also had some Skype calls as well during the time. We communicated pretty much and it was easy with them.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their good attitude toward delivering good solutions was impressive. They are also: 

• Flexible
• Offers good service
• Offers pretty affordable in price 

Yet now they have increased their rates.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Debugging and testing could be done better to reduce time wasted.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We're offering 3d modeling service to the Real Estate and construction companies.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering?

We needed a web solution that our clients can use to highlight their real estate projects, enable web reservation and showcase single apartments based on 3D visualizations.

What were your goals for this project?

To get fully functioning app, that is nice to use and so that clients are ready to pay for using it.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I did call for quote including several development companies. This one was selected due to their professional offering, great communication and affordable price level.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

The application which helps construction companies to visualize architecture projects and present them on the websites in interactive view. Application is implemented as a widget on the website of the seller with an images of architecture project, buildings, apartments with masks and availability to book the property.

What was the team composition?

Manager and 2 coders.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

I've got new paying clients that are willing to pay on monthly basis for this software, and I am going to further develop the app.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Weekly skype calls, and checkups.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Job was completed beautifully and competently! I absolutely recommend hiring Konstantin and his team. He's showing real professionalism in everything he does. The team proposed a lot of solutions to drastically improve the user experience and overcame all the challenges with architecture on the project. The application was created from the scratch and involved all the required features. Team was always available and did as best as they could as usual with all the modern technologies and development principles. I will definitely use his services in the future too! Thank you!

Are there any areas for improvement?

Double check that everything is understood correctly before they proceed to coding things.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO of Marketbox, which is a trading platform. It’s a channel where retailers can sell their products on several marketplaces and manage them from one place.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with UFO Engineering?

We didn’t have a development team to work on our trading platform.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They developed the architectural database, the first version of the frontend of the system, a landing page, and a CRM. They helped us to choose the right framework which was Laravel and advised us on choosing the proper database and technologies.

What is the team composition?

There was a project manager, two or three developers, and one team lead.

How did you come to work with UFO Engineering?

We’d worked with them before for SEO on another project.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together in March–September 2017.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The team is professional and extremely qualified. They did very good work as their development team is excellent. We were pleased with them, but we decided to create an in-house team.

How did UFO Engineering perform from a project management standpoint?

They have very good project management. Communication was over Slack, Skype, and phone. We also had regular standup meetings to discuss any difficult questions or decisions.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Their team lead has a very good analytic system. He understands business tasks and can convert them into a development task.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They don’t always understand my tasks correctly. I have had to clarify some responsibilities. They can improve this through experience and time.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO and founder of iFindCheaters LLC. We offer a service that allows users to search for their romantic partner to determine if they have any open accounts on more than 50 dating platforms.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering?

We initially engaged UFO Engineering to devise a better reporting system through our platform. Following the completion of that task, we hired them to complete the development of our product.

What were your goals for this project?

We hoped to automate our platform’s reporting mechanism without having any freezing or errors.  

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We learned of UFO Engineering through Upwork. I knew we were in good hands after our first call with Konstantin (CEO, UFO Engineering). We responded really well to his work ethic and approach.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Through the process of UFO Engineering determining a method to automate our reporting system, we became more familiar with their work speed and breadth of knowledge. In turn, we decided to make UFO Engineering our agency of record for the rest of our development projects. We relied on them to implement a new design and new features for our platform, and they also upgraded our service with new search options and conducted an SEO analysis to help improve our search rankings.

What was the team composition?

UFO Engineering assigned a project manager to our account. That person monitored the work and assigned tasks to their development team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

With UFO Engineering’s guidance, we’ve been able to make smarter decisions concerning the functionality and sustainability of our platform. In doing so, we’ve been able to save money by only working with one firm. UFO Engineering has always kept our best interests in mind.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

UFO Engineering benefits from having a very organized and professional team. They tracked everything in Trello, making it simple to monitor our progress.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

UFO Engineering took ownership of our project and treated us with great care. From beginning to end, we were pleased with the team’s communication style, work ethic, and programming abilities.  

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, everything ran smoothly.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the head of the office

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering, and what were your goals?

We hired UFO Engineering to build a CRM fully customised for internal purposes. Application has a streamline process which optimises the process of working with tourists, helps to track statistics, automates most of the processes and automatically adds accounting records and exports accounting reports.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

UFO Engineering provided a good solution for our work process and provided a good price for the work, cutting corners where necessary, but to be able to help us achieve our goal.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The tasks were:

• To have all workers and their roles and responsibilities in one place
• To automate most of business processes and automatically track all tourists requests
• To create a database of tourists and create instruments for their management
• To automatically create a contract between tourists and agency
• To automatically track financing such as income, invoicing, etc
• To track commission of travel agents

Technologies were: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Directly we communicated with business development manager and project manager, rest of the team (one front end and one back end developer) was coding, we did not communicate with them directly.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

CRM works as a web application. The applications streamlines and automates most of the processes, helps track financial information and safely keeps client information for future use.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We were communicating with managers through messengers and google meet, where they provided updates and asked questions, contracts, private information and accesses were provided through emails.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their private approach to our project and search for solution were impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

As I was told, the project was like doing a warm-up for their developers, they've done their job great and in time.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the director of consultancy and e-commerce for our company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire UFO Engineering?

We hired them to provide website design services.

What were your goals for this project?

I wanted a professional, fast, and user-friendly web design.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Some businesses highly recommended UFO Engineering. Looking at their portfolio, I knew that they were going to become my main vendor for all future web development projects.

Can you go into detail about the services they provided and the scope of the project?

They provided excellent web design and development for a fast PHP site.

What was the team composition?

I worked with Konstantin (CEO, UFO Engineering). The team also included their project manager, frontend developers, and backend developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

I have the best possible site, which will no doubt increase conversions, traffic, and sales.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project management was organized well.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Konstantin led the way to perfection.

Are there any areas where they can improve?

Can you improve a perfect website? I don't think so.